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T.B.BLOSSER.

VEHICLE TIRE. I No, 543,434. Patented July 2a, 1895.

WITNESSES:

v IN'VENITOR U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEODORE B. BLOSSER, on SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, Asstenon, BY DIREoT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE VICTOR RUBBER TIRE COMPANY, or SAME PLAoE.

VEHICLE-TIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 543,434, dated July 23 1895. v I Application filed May. 24, 1895. Serial No. 550,548. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THEODORE B. BLOSSER,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Clark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Tires, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvementsin thatclass of rubber tires designed for ordi- 1o nary vehicle-wheels. v

p The object of my'invention is to provide a tire of simple. and inexpensive construction which shall be durable as well as effective in operation.

My invention consists in the various constructions and combinations of parts, hereinafter described, and-set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a vehicle-wheel, to which my invention is shown applied, a part of the tire and felly being shownin section. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the wheelrim with the tire thereon. Fig. 3 view of the telly with the tire shown in sec- -tion. Fig. 4 is a detail view showing a modification.

Like parts are represented by similar letters of reference in the several views.

In the said drawings, a represents an ordi- J3o nary vehicle-wheel, a the rim thereof, and

b the metal felly or channel-iron into which my improved rubber tire is placed, these being the usual and common constructions.

My improved tire 0 consists, essentially, of

i 3.5 an inner core 0, of leather or other suitable flexible material having little or no elasticity, said inner core being surrounded by a coating .or casing 0 of rubber. The inner core is provided with a perforation extending 1one gitudinally through the same and through which is passed a retaining-Wire d.

In placing the tire on the wheel the ends of the tire are brought together and the ends of the wire united by forming the same into loops d and 02 which interlock, as shown in Fig. 3, the ends of the wire forming the loops being held bysmall sleeves or collars d d, passed over the same, as shown. In

is a top uniting the ends of the wire the rubber casing or coating is pressed back along the core, and if the core cannot be compressed suificiently endwise the same maybe slit at the ends, as I shown in Fig.4, to permit the uniting of the wires, after which the core is closed over the joint thus formed, and the elasticity of the rubber coating or casing will causethe ends thereof to press firmly together, and, if desired, they may be further united by cementing the same in a well-known manner.

This tire may be formed by-providing the core and molding the rubber around the same, or the rubber may be formed hollow and the core drawn through the same after the rubber is completed. The tire is preferably fiat at the bottom to fit the channel-iron or metal By employing the central core of leather or similar non-elastic or slightly-elastic material two very important results are accomplished. The tire ;is very materially cheapened without materially affecting its efficacy or its durability. The retaining-wire passing through the core is brought in contact with a harder substance than when in direct contact with. the rubber and is not so liable to out through or to enlarge the opening. By having the bottom of the core flat a single retainingwire placed centrally through the same will,

through the medium of the core, exert a ref taining pressure over almost the entire bottom of the tire and'thus dispense with the necessity of additional retaining-wires.

Having thus described my invention, I

- claim- 1. The combination in a vehicle wheel having a channel folly, of a tire consisting es' a flat bottom tofit said felly, a central core of 65 felly, the core being correspondingly shaped.

leather or other similar non-elastic or slightly byinterlocking loops having retaining sleeves elastic material also flat at the bottom as deor collars, substantially as specified. scribed, and'a single retaining Wire passing In testimony whereof I have hereunto set through said core, substantially as specified. my hand this 16th day of May, A. D. 1895.

5 3. The combination with a channel feliy, of THEODORE B. BLOSSER. a rubber-tire having a central core of leather, Witnesses:

a retaining wire passing through said core, OLIVER H. MILLER,

the ends of said retaining wire being united CHAS. I. VVELOH. 

